Group: USDA inspectors missed Catelli site abuses

10:17 AM,
Feb. 3, 2014

The Catelli Bros. Inc. meat-processing plant in Shrewsbury has been shut down temporarily.

Written by

Michael L. Diamond
| Asbury Park Press

The Monmouth County meat-processing plant temporarily shut down and cited a week ago for failing to dispatch calves humanely had at least one government inspector on site whenever it was operating, but it was left to an animal rights group to blow the whistle.

The Humane Society of the United States said it routinely finds violations during its investigations and called for stiffer regulation at slaughterhouses. Government inspectors at any meat plant, they say, only have to spend 15 minutes a day checking on humane practices.